Left Atrial Spinning Ball Thrombus in a Patient with Cardioembolic Stroke: A Case Report

Left atrial ball thrombus: a particularly emboligenous anatomical shape

“…They demonstrated that the rate of embolism in the movable type group was significantly higher than that in the other groups [10] . In our case, it was a movable ball type and the embolic rate was very high [11] , but, among these, spinning ball thrombi may have an even worse prognosis [6] .…”

“…It is speculated that a fixed thrombus initially forms in the left atrial appendage or the left atrial wall [6] . Afterwards, it grows into a round shape, followed by disconnection of the pedicle between the thrombus and the atrial wall [7] .…”